18 F. Supp. 159 - The Doris Kellogg’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 1993
2 federal appellate ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on The Southwark · Earle & Stoddart, Inc. v. Ellerman's Wilson Line, Ltd. · Joseph Martin v. Steamship Southwark · The Turret Crown · International Mercantile Marine S. S. Co. v. W. & A. Fletcher Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To support its contention the claimant must show that the explosion was due to the ignition of explosive gas in the No. 5 dry cargo space by a spark or other electrical manifestation from the electric wiring. But these requirements are met if conditions and circumstances be shown from which the inference could reasonably be drawn that such factors existed and produced the explosion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It was not necessary that the plaintiff show that a static spark was actually produced; but it was sufficient if conditions and circumstances were shown from which the inference could be reasonably drawn that a static spark was produced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.